Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City

Nikolas Bakirtzis is an Associate Professor at The Cyprus Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus. His research focuses on Byzantine monasticism, medieval cities and fortifications, and the island landscapes of the Byzantine, medieval, and early modern Mediterranean. As the Director of the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Labs, he leads research on the materiality of medieval and early modern art enhanced through the use of advanced digital and analytical methods. His work has received support from the European Commission, the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation, the Princeton Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute. Luca Zavagno is an Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies at Bilkent University, Turkey. He is the author of many articles and books on the early medieval and Byzantine Mediterranean. His research focuses on Byzantine urbanism and medieval Mediterranean insularity. He has been awarded the Dumbarton Oaks Summer Fellowship twice (in 2011 and 2016) as well as the prestigious Stanley Seeger Fellowship of the Hellenic Studies Center at Princeton University (2012), the Newton Mobility Grant (2018), and he has been twice a fellowship at Center for Advanced Studies ‘Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’ at the University of Tubingen, Germany (2022 and 2023).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroductionNikolas Bakirtzis and Luca ZavagnoPART I - Theory and Historiography1 The Byzantine City and its HistoriographyLuca Zavagno2 Theorizing Byzantine Urbanity: The City Constituting Memory, Memory Constituting the CityMyrto Veikou3 The Byzantine City in the Literary SourcesHelen Saradi4 Methodologies for Byzantine Urban StudiesMichael J. Decker5 Spatial Organization in Late Byzantine Cities (13th・14th Centuries)Tonia KiousopoulouPART II - Geographies of the Byzantine City6 Cities on the Black Sea Coast and the Circumpontic Exchange Network (c. 500・700)Andrei Gandila7 The Byzantine ‘City’ in Asia MinorUfuk Serin8 Insular Urbanism in ByzantiumLuca Zavagno9 The City in the Byzantine ‘Italies’Enrico Cirelli10 Urbanism in Syria and Palestine Between the 7th and 9th CenturiesIan RandallPART III - Architecture and the Built Environment11 Domes in the Urban Skyline: The Case of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus and its Transformations through TimeNikolaos Karydis12 Fortifications and the Making of the Byzantine CityNikolas Bakirtzis13 Monumentality and the Byzantine CityMaria Cristina Carile14 Maintained, Stored and Protected: Water and the Byzantine CityE. Giorgi15 Islamic City, Ottoman City: Byzantine Prousa to Ottoman BursaSuna Cağaptay16 Two Views of Ports and Maritime Communities in the Byzantine Mediterranean: Constantinople and AmalfiMichael Jones and Matthew Harpster17 Alexandria after Antiquity: A City in TransitionAthanasios KoutoupasPART IV - Daily Life, Visual and Material Culture18 “The Arts and the Byzantine City”Ioli Kalavrezou19 On Early Byzantine Images of Poleis: Meanings and MessagesJenny P. Albani20 The Consumptive Capital: Commercial Activities and Ceramic Finds at Constantinople (ca. 500・1000)Joanita Vroom21 Pera Ianuensium Pulcherrima Civitas Est: Creating a Genoese Identity on the Golden Horn (1261・1453)Mabi Angar